The twilight of Briareus

I read this book as a teenager and parts of it have stuck with me since then. The opening chapters are very vivid and it's certainly the strangest kind of alien invasion tale you will come across, but after a promising start it becomes very static and 'telling' as it adopts more of a diary style, which really drags the pace down and puts a distance between the reader and narrator.

I'm glad I read it again, but I'm probably won't return to it in years to come.